As a lot of us have been saying for fucking YEARS

I think hell already froze over in Texas since Greg Abbott and Cancun Cruz kept getting into power there over Beto O'Rourke.

Texas fails its people routinely. All they do politically in the media is meant for distraction from that consistent fact.

Wherever you see them talking about the border, abortion, voter suppression tactics, unisex bathrooms, Dr. Seuss, etc, remember this is really a distraction from things like ERCOT, a clear example of how they fail and can't fix anything, even while Texans suffer and die avoidable deaths on a regular schedule now...

Repeat after me everyone. ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ted cruz ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT greg abbot ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT louie gohmert ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCO ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ~~madison cawthorn~~ ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT john cornyn ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT dan patrick ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT ERCOT

So the ENTIRE western half of the United States is on one power grid and the ENTIRE East Coast is in another power grid. All that unity and then Texas decides, "nah man, not for me, iM a FrEeDuMbb!!!" 

So they have their own poorly designed and neglected power grid that is routinely failing, year after year - when it's too cold and when it's too hot. It has broken, aging equipment that they know needs to be replaced, yet they ignore things like proper winterizing to save on cost.

If you recall any of the winter storms that froze Texas for weeks in the past several years? They lose their electricity, make weak attempts to blame it publicly on things like wind power and the border. That third Texas-centric failed power grid (the body that controls it) is called ERCOT. 

Early in the pandemic, ERCOT lost power for the whole state due to sustained, avoidable neglect of their equipment. After written warnings and a lack of safety regulation in Texas to force them to maintain. Then, while Texans were dying, literally freezing to death without access to food, fresh water or some medications, the coward ted cruz famously abandoned his constituents to try to sneak away to the Ritz Carlton in Mexico with his family to warm up a bit. When caught at the airport, he then blamed his daughter, changed his planned return flight to an earlier time and pretended that he was only dropping his family off. Then of course text messages came out later from his wife texting their wealthy neighbors basically saying, "who wants to go get warm at the Ritz with ted and me while these poor fuckers freeze to death?" (and yes, that is the same wife that trump publicly called ugly publicly, only for Ted to lick his lifted boots for the past decade). All of this was during the height of first wave COVID of course and with international travel restrictions still in force in many places. 

It eventually became clear that a good chunk of the ERCOT board members that made these decisions to neglect maintenance of equipment or risk it failing catastrophically don't even live in the state (therefore don't have to suffer any direct physical consequences of their actions). One lived in Indiana, another as far away as Germany. And all the while, Texans dying due to incompetence AND THEN THEY RE-ELECT their abusers. The same politicians listed above are the ones that don't regulate (or deliberately remove safety regulations) to enable ERCOT's heartless failure. 

Texas is a national embarrassm, they can vote to change that.

So another lose lose for the rest of us. Texas gets to mooch off of us when their third world grid can't handle the load and tax payers have to pay for the connection.

Unfortunately this doesn’t say if they (Ercot) are going to comply with national regulations, which was apparently why they refused to connect in the first place.

We Texans don’t need none of that safety or reliability forced down our throats! 🇵🇷the starts at night, are big and bright! 🇵🇷

(I know that isn’t the Texas flag)

lol. lmao even

Ah, the south consuming more fed money die to their own stupidity yet again.

Neat, they are gonna build some high voltage dc infrastructure to connect with Texas. It allows connection of grids that aren't in sync with each other. (At least that was supposed to be a huge advantage of HVDC when I was first hearing about it.)

I'm glad the non-assholes in Texas are going to see improvement from this, even if the Conservatives get to ride on their coattails.

My state Reps office was floating something about giving incentives for more gas plants. Then it turns out there's a suit against the gas companies for rigging the entire thing.

Fuck these clowns, of course the feds will actually fix the problem.

I don't like saying this, but you reap what you sow. This is pretty on par with what all the Texans I know believe. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps. If your bootstraps are missing then it's definitely someone else's fault.

That's SOCIALISM! FREEZING to Death is TRUE Patriotism!

So….socialism? Someone wake up Ted Cruz from his Corona nap on a chair in Cancun!

This improves all Americans access to energy. Texas can reroute power from the southeast sector if needed and vis versa. Ultimately this will save money and lives.

A fucking grant? Come the fuck on.

Ah. Don't want the heat and light to fail in Republicstan this close to an election.

Time will tell if the State of Texas has finally seen the light.

I like 7 gigawatts over 7,100 megawatts.

Ok, this wasn't on my bingo card.

I'm... impressed. (I didn't read the article, mind you.)

I should call the doctor. I’m hallucinating

Isn't it a bit late in the year to be doing this? Like is this because we all know there's gonna be blackouts in the winter months. Will this be completed in time to prevent that?